truncation.
The act of truncating or shortening (for example, words are shortened to form blend words or portmanteaus).
Meaning & usage
The act of truncating or shortening (for example, words are shortened to form blend words or portmanteaus).
The removal of the least significant digits from a decimal number.
An operation in any dimension that cuts a regular polytope at its vertices, creating a new facet in place of each vertex.
Where this word comes from
From Late Latin truncātiō, from Latin truncāre, past participle truncātus (“to cut off”). By surface analysis, truncate + -ion.
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